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Child care in JOBS employment and training program: What difference does quality make?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1993
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55(3), 767-783

A study on the influence of good quality child care availability on JOBS Employment and Training Program participant retention

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Child care in the wake of welfare reform: The impact of government subsidies on the economic well-being of single-mother families
Meyers, Marcia K., 2001
Social Service Review, 75(1), 29-59

A study of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and its impact on the economic well being of single low income mothers

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Child care, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
Meyers, Marcia K., 1995
Social Service Review, 69(4), 679-702

An analysis of welfare reform's design to move parents, including those with young children, into the labor force and the manifold issues that arise: child care choices and adequacy of choices, parental child care choice, and consumer education regarding welfare reform

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Child care policy reform and the employment of single mothers
Bainbridge, Jay, 2003
Social Science Quarterly, 84(4), 771-791

An examination of the effect of growth in child care subsidies, from 1991 through 1996, on employment rates of single mothers, using data from the 1992 through 1997 March Current Population Surveys

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Child care preferences and choices: Are AFDC recipients unique?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1992
Social Work Research & Abstracts, 28(1), 28-34

An analysis of data concerning child care decisions, arrangements, and attitudes of single mothers entering the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in California

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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
Meyers, Marcia K., 2002
Demography, 39(1), 165-179

A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their labor market activity

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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
Meyers, Marcia K., 1999
(Working Paper No. 15). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance.

A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their employment.

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Child care subsidies: Are they working to help recipients work their way off welfare?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1998
Paper presented at a meeting of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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Child day care in welfare reform: Are we targeting too narrowly?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1995
Child Welfare, 74(6), 1071-1080

A study of whether California participants in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program are encountering reduced access to public child care subsidies because of public policy decisions to narrow and restrict eligibility; the data was collected through analysis of survey results from subsamples drawn from a random sample of 15,000 cases stratified over four counties

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Choice and accommodation in parental child care decisons
Meyers, Marcia K., Summer 2006
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 37(2), 53-70

An overview of research on the determinants of child care use and choice, including socioeconomic status, demographic characteristics, price, parental employment status, and quality of care

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Cracks in the seams: Durability of child care in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
Meyers, Marcia K., 1997
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 18(4), 379-406

An analysis of the integration of targeted child care subsidies and services and transitions for low-income participants in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) welfare-to-work program

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The dynamics of child care subsidy use: A collaborative study of five states
Meyers, Marcia K., July, 2002
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

A study of characteristics of child care subsidy use in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas from July 1997 to June 1999, including examinations of services received, continuity, duration, and stability, based on administrative data collected from state subsidy payment systems

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The effects of expanded public funding for early education and child care on preschool enrollment in the 1990s
Magnuson, Katherine A.,
New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

An examination of the relationship between public funding and child care enrollment levels among low-income children between 1992-2000, based on merging cross sectional data from the October Current Population Survey with data on state-level funding

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Inequality in preschool education and school readiness
Magnuson, Katherine A., 2004
American Educational Research Journal, 41(1), 115-157

A comparison of the effects of preschool education on the school readiness of advantaged and disadvantaged children, utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ELS-K)

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Inequality in pre-school education and school readiness
Magnuson, Katherine A., 2003
New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

A study examining links between center or school-based preschool attendance and factors that contribute to school readiness and success, including reading and math skills, and suggests that school success gaps between children from high to middle and middle to low income families may be narrowed or eliminated by sending all children to preschool using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)

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Packaging support for low-income families: Policy variation across the United States
Meyers, Marcia K., 2001
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20(3), 457-483

An analysis of variations in state level social policy packages that provide support for low-income families with children

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The performance of the child-care subsidy system
Meyers, Marcia K., 1999
Social Service Review, 73(1), 37-64

A discussion of the child care subsidy system in California centering around target efficiency, coverage adequacy, and equity of the system for low-income and welfare recipient families

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The performance of the child care subsidy system: Target efficiency, coverage, adequacy and equity
Meyers, Marcia K., 1998
Unpublished manuscript

A discussion of the child care subsidy system in California centering around target efficiency, coverage adequacy, and equity of the system for low-income and welfare recipient families

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Public funding and enrollment in formal child care in the 1990s
Magnuson, Katherine A., March 2007
Social Service Review, 81(1), 47-83

An analysis of the relation between public funding of child care and young children's child care attendance through the 1990s, using data from the 1999 October Current Population Survey

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Variation in subsidy receipt among Fragile Families women
Jordan, Lucy P., 2004
Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, Georgia

An examination of differences in child care subsidy receipt among at risk new mothers, using a demographically homogenous sample from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study

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Who gets an early education?: Family income and the enrollment of 3- to 5-year-olds from 1968 to 2000
Bainbridge, Jay, 2003
New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

A study examining the links between family income, access to high quality early education programs and economic policies through four periods from 1968 to 2000

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Who gets an early education?: Family income and the enrollment of three- to five-year-olds from 1968 to 2000
Bainbridge, Jay, 2005
Social Science Quarterly, 86(3), 724-745

An exploration of trends in disparities in access to early education from 1968 to 2000, based on enrollment data for children in all school settings and family income data from the October Current Population Survey

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Who gets what from government?: Distributional consequences of child-care assistance policies
Durfee, Alesha, 2006
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68(3), 733-748

An analysis of the level and distribution of child care assistance using data from the New York Social Indicators Survey to examine how many families receive assistance, how much assistance is received, and how the total assistance levels vary in terms of family, child, and parent characteristics

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Who pays?: The visible and invisible costs of child care
Meyers, Marcia K., March 2006
Politics & Society, 34(1), 109-128

An examination of how much New York-based parents pay for child care, amount provided by government subsidies, and estimated value of family, friend, and neighbor caregiving

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